The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-19
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viewed IN the city NALL New YORK, by TO-
600 persons
YELLOW fever is prevailing at Colon,
Colombia also in Belize, British Honduras
and Livingston, Guatemala.
A DISPATCH from Franklin, Maine, ap-
parently establishes an alibi for Stain, the
alleged murderer of Barron,
THE Duchess of Cumberland, who was
put into an insane asylum some months
ago, has recovered her reason.
JOHN f. HENRY & Co., wholesale drug
gists, New York, assigned Monday. Henry
was formerly of Waterbury, Vt.
DURING the past week the President and
party have visited st. Paul, Omaha, Kansas
City, Memphis and other places.
FIFTEEN persons were killed and nine
teen injured, perhaps fatally, by an explo-
sion of dynamite in Lima, Peru.
THE report that Emperor Dom Pedro of
Brazil was about to abdicate his throne, be-
cause of i'll health, is unfounded.
In a railroad accident at Warren, Ohio,
two engines and dozen cars were de-
moished and two men were badly hurt.
AN express safe on the Iron Mountain
railroad was recently robbed of 100000.
Messenger John b. Owens has confessed
DIPHTHERIA is raging to such an extent
in Portland, Maine, that Center street school
has closed; there is talk of closing others.
Mrs. w KoEHNE and her four daughters
of Fond du Lac, Wis, were fatally beaten
by an unknown burglar Wednesday night.
ACCORDING to the official reports, there
were 3O7S0 fatal cases of cholera in the
northwest provinces Of India during August.
IT is feared the cities of San Bias and
Mazatlan have been partially, if not en-
tirely, destroyed by the tidal wave and hur-
ricane.
S. w. RAwsoN, a rich banker of Chicago.
n oh hx,
his step-son to avenge the SANDER of his
mother.
WASHINGTON democrats are anxious to
have the next democratic convention held
there and will make strenuous efforts to
that end
SNow-sToRMs, accompanied by thunder
and lightning, have prevailed in England
and Wales. The roads in Wales are blocked
with snow.
REV. DIR. LYMAN ABBOTT, editor of the
Christian Union, has been engaged to supply
the Plymouth pulpit until a successor to
Beecher is chosen.
The returns are not yet complete from
the prohibition election in Tennessee, but
the latest figures show an anti-prohibition
majority of over $1,000.
ROBBERS attempted to rob an express-car
near Ell Paso, Texas, on Friday, but two of
them were shot and killed by j. E. Smith,
the express messenger.
THE republicans of the Rhode Island sec
ond congressional district have nominated
Warren &. Arnold, a wooden manufacturers
forty-eight years of age.
JUDGE III. L. ELLIOT, who made the welcom-
ing address to President Cleveland at Mem
phis, died on the stand before the cere-
monies were completed.
REV. DIR. DAVID r. KERR, editor of The
United Presbyterian and one of the foremost
nj nIt rob Il in1 ttpI.,
Penn, aged sixty-nine years.
Both the Western Union Telegraph Co.
and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. held
annual meetings last week. Robert Garrett
formally resigned his presidency.
FRANK JONES and Charles Sinclair testi-
fled before the New Hampshire bribery
committee, denying all charges. The mat
ter has been indefinitely postponed
CHAUNcEY NJ. DEPEw says he did not pre-
dict financial cyclone, but criticised the
extravagant booming of real estate and the
building of unnecessary railway lines.
THE Bryn Mawr Hotel, situated at Bryn
Mawr, station ON the Pennsylvania rail
road about twelve miles from Philadelphia,
was destroyed by fire last week. Loss
100000
The jury in the Mitchellstown Ureland)
case rendered a verdict of murder against
Inspector Brownrigg, Sergeants Kirwan,
and Doran.
A MISSOURI PACIFIC accommodation train
Tor Kansas City, Thursday, was telescoped
near Rock Creek station by the Wichita ex-
press. One person was killed and large
number were injured.
RESOLUTIONS of sympathy for the con-
demned anarchists were declared out of
order by Powderly in the Knights of Labor
convention, and his decision was sustained
by vote of three to one.
r. p. Hicks, cashier of the Stafford Ma
tional Bank of Stafford Springs, Conn, has
been arrested on the charge of embezzling
over $4,000 of the banks money. 1t is
thought the bank is ruined.
The general assembly of the Knights of
Labor at Minneapolis unanimously adopted
the clause of the report of the committee on
legislation pledging the support of the
Knights to the Blair education bill
ONE of the most disastrous storms ever
known on the southern coast of Mexico oc-
Cured October Sth. The city of Quelto, a
town OF more than 5000 inhabitants, was
totally destroyed and many lives were lost.
THE northern Ohio insane asylum at
Newburgh was partly burned the 18th. The
rescued all the patients they
could. The bodies of six asphyxiated
women were recovered Three more were
found injured.
lHE London NeUS' Dublin correspondent
telegraphs that he has received information
from an influential quarter that the govern
ment will, within a fortnight totally sup
press the league The nationalists, he says,
are prepared for any such emergency.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT has returned
from Europe and grand shake up in his
newspaper offices has taken place. He has
secured Cockerill of the World as managing
editor of the Herdld and has relieved the
two leading editors of the Euening Telegram
GOODWIN & Co.'S saw-mill at Cvgnet
Ohio, was burned the 14th. Loss $40, 900. The
bodies of j. G. Mccall, well-known con-
tractor, and William Faughne were found in
the ruins Two other men sustained serious
injuries by jumping from thrd-story
window.
A BERLIN special says: " The latest re-
ports regarding the condition of the prince
imperial are very disquieting. There is no
doubt that the cancerOus growth has reap
peared with greater vrulence than ever.
Court papers speak of his condition as being
very grave"
For the past week fires have been raging
Cruz counties, all in the vicinity of the Bay
of San Francisco. In Alemeda thirteen
miles have been swept clean and several
fine farms have been destroyed The
ground is covered with carcasses of dead
animals.
MR.. GOULD announces that there will be
no advance of rates on any of the old West
ern Union lines, and that the rates on the
acquired lines of the Baltimore & Ohio sys-
TEN will be made to conform to the estab-
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